Proton’s three-door hatch form has also be given a reinterpretation courtesy of digital rendering maestro Theophilus Chin, who gave a rendition of what could be a shortened Proton Iriz with two fewer doors, dubbed the Iriz Neo. Here, though, is a set of renditions by Saharudin Busri who, instead of using the more recent Iriz as a base, employed the form of the Satria Neo as the basis for his graphic renditions.

The Satria Neo’s more rounded glasshouse and roofline relative to those of the Iriz remain evident here, and the design on show here employs a selection of SUV/crossover styling cues, such as roof rails, extended black plastic wheel arch cladding, faux skid plate trim at the base of the front bumper with matching pieces beneath the side sills and rear bumper, with larger wheels shod in tyres in the style of all-terrain items.

The rear bumper features a twin exhaust outlet arrangement which recalls the Satria GTi of the late ’90s, while further up from here is a roof spoiler for additional sporting flair. At both ends, the Satria Neo’s headlamp and tail light clusters have been brought up to date with a more modern design, each corner featuring a four-element design and joined by a circular LED DRL surrounding each foglamp.

To these eyes, this rendition offers a nice element of sportiness to the lifted, crossover look, even if it has been applied to the discontinued Satria Neo instead of a model from the current Proton model range. What do you think of these, dear readers? Might these translate well to the current crop of Geely-based Proton SUVs, should these be applied?

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I have to say, this is a wholly better render than Theo’s. It oozes originality with not a hint of any other cars mashed into the final images as so obviously seen from Theo’s own creations (sorry to say).

Nice render Theophilus Chin, but I don’t think Proton is going to create a Game Changer like what you designed since Proton now is only doing Game Over rebadging business by changing logo. No more creativity like before as Geely now fully controls Proton

With almost all body panels look new, it could have been named Satria Beta or Gamma.

Neo was launched 15 years ago, almost Jurassic.

And stop dreaming. Even japanese giant car makers not planning to make 2 door SUV even though they have 30-60 times bigger market in the entire planet than proton. This includes Toyota, Honda and Mazda.

Suzuki can do so with a huge customer base on the Jimny while Land Rover had billionaire Rattan Tata as it’s owner but the business venture was a successful one. Deep financial trouble though now.

Theo just trying to be realistic, making his rendering look closer to a possible production car. Of course he’s taking a cue from current line-up family-look and from parent company’s products. But that’s not how a car designer create hype in automotive world.

This above render is unrealistic. It can go as far as a concept car only. But this is how you create hype. A designer is given utmost freedom to create a render of his own design without any engineering limitations on how it will look in production stage. But I do actually hope he doesn’t left any essential latest proton design cue like “infinite weave” grille.

Yeahh I never said Theo was designing. He’s merely came out with something that will POSSIBLY produced by Proton, complete with production look. In other words: if proton come out with something, that’s how it gonna look in the end.

This render above shows creativity of a designer, that’s why concept car look cool. Not only the headlamp, but the wheel size also unrealistic. If that wheel size got into production, proton may end up having to modify the key chassis points where the new position for suspension mounting is required. That may end up changing the whole chassis dynamic & structure, and may skewed away from original design look. Other than that, it was pretty realistic.

You know what is true talent? The designer who come out with the design above. Not some shitty wizard where people see him as legendrary blabla when all he did was just copy and paste from geely model.

Even the recently wagon saga is also copy and paste.. Exact same front and back and side. Just edit the roof higher to become a wagon and people praise him and say he is a wizard and legendary? What a joke

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